Non-refillable bottle.



APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 5, 1914.

Patented June 29, 1915.

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HARRY 1V. RIES, OF COLLINGSWOOD, NEW JERSEY, AND LANDY B. BROWN AND FREDERICK C. YOCKEL, OF EHILADEHPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

NON-REFILLAIBLE BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, TIARRY W. Bins, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Collingswood, county of Camden, and State of New Jersey, and LANDY B. BROWN and FREDERICK C. YooKnL, citizens of the United States, and residents of Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement in Non-Refillable Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

The object of our invention is to provide a construction of non-refillable bottle which shall be simple, cheap, durable and effective in use.

Our inventionconsists of a cap for the bottle having a chamber terminating in an outlet and having communication with the passage of the bottle neck by a valve seat, preferably of cork or yielding material, and said cap combined with a valve piece having its valve proper arranged in the chamber and seating upon the valve seat and provided with an arm extending through the thoroughfare of the valve seat to act as a weight in seating the valve piece, said valve piece being rounded or spherically shaped. upon its upper surface, and with a loose piece also arranged within the chamber and having a curved or substantially spherically shaped under surface contacting with the rounded or spherically shaped surface of the valve piece and performing thedual function of shielding the valve piece against being tampered with and of assisting in seating itself and in forming a tight joint to prevent inflow of liquid, if attempt were made to refill the bottle.

Our invention also comprehends details of construction which, together with the features above specified, will be better understood by reference to the drawings, in which Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a nonrefillable bottle embodying our invention; Fig. 2 is a cross section of the same on line mm, looking upward; and Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of the same corresponding to Fig. 1 when inverted as in pouring the I contents of the bottle.

2 is a chamberedv cap or head, and has a cylindrical open body9 which fits upon the neck 12 of a bottle and may be cemented thereto at 11, or otherwise secured in place. This cap has a shoulder 8 which clamps down upon the annular valve seat 13 and presses it upon the upper edge of the bottle neck to preferably make a tight joint. The valve seat 13 is preferably formed of cork or other pliable material, and is furnished with the central aperture or thoroughfare 14. The body of the cap is formed with a chamber 5 terminating at the top in the pouring or discharge outlet 3. The inner vertical wall of the chamber is provided with a plurality of ribs 6 which extend radially inward at the top as at 7 and terminate in the annular rib 4 at the inner end of the pouring outlet 3. The vertical ribs 6 preferably terminate at a short distance above the shoulder 8 to provide notches 10, the function of which is to furnish a fulcrum seat about which the valve piece 15 may oscillate.

15 is the valve piece and is made with a substantially spherical upper surface and with an annular or seating surface 16 to seat upon the cork seat 13. This valve piece is also preferably made hollow on its under side and provided with a downwardly extending arm 17 which projects through the opening 14 of the valve seat 13, and acts as a weight for holding the valve piece upon its seat and to rock the said valve piece to reseat itself when the bottle is being righted after pouring. The curved upper surface of the valve piece 15 terminates with the under or seating surface in a circumferential edge which acts as a fulcrum about which the valve piece may rock, said edge being received in confined condition at 10 in a seat between the valve seat and the beveled ends of the ribs 6 (Fig. 3). This valve piece is arranged within the chamber 5 and is associated with a movable part 19 having a substanti ally rounded or spherically shaped under surface 18, and acts as a shield for the valve piece to prevent the introduction of a wire for holding the valve piece from its seat in any attempt to refill the bottle. This part 19 has a relatively sharp circumferential edge which is guided by the ribs 6 and said part 19 is supported upon the radial ribs 7 when the bottle is inverted so that at all times there is a free passage about it for the flow of fluid. The space within the chamber 5 is such that neither the part 19 nor the valve piece 15 can become displaced or reversed, but at the same time there is sufficient play to these parts that the valve Patented June 29, 1915.

piece may tilt or rock upon its edge at 10 for permitting the discharge of the fluid contents of the bottle when the bottle is slightly inverted beyond a horizontal plane and the piece 19 may tilt about its circumferential edge on the ribs 6 when the bottle is in a horizontal position, so that its roundedunder surface 18 may contact with the valve piece and its weight may assist the valve piece in closing upon its seat.

The operation of the device is as fol I6tvs: W1ienfthe bottle stands in an upright position as in Fig.1, the valve piece 15 seats upon the annular valve seat 13, and this position is insured by the arm 17 acting as a weight, and also by the superimposed part 1}9acting as a further weight. In this conditidn, Qit evident that not only would a volatile beverage be prevented from evaporation, but if any attempts were made to refill the bottle in this position no liquid could tejmade to 'go ,into the bottle. In "easing the contents of the bottle from the outlet, the bottle is turned in a more or less inverted position, as indicated in Fig. 3 for example. Then this position is assumed, it will be, seen that the Weighted part 19 takes a position against the ribs 17 so that there is "a passage around the said part provided by the presence of these ribs, and at the same time the valve piece 15 slides laterally into the notch or seat 10 at the lower part and rocks'about the said notch until arrestedby contact with the cup piece 19. In this position, the yalve piece isaway from its seat '13 theliquidfmay freely flow out of the bottle. hen the bottle is being turned in rightingit to the upright position, like in Fig. '1, the arm 17 acting as a weight rocks theannular seat 18 somewhat prior to the bottle assuming a horizontal position, this being assisted by the weighted action 'of the part 19. upon the curved surface of the valve piece {then as the bottle is turnedto a further degree, the weighted part 19 slides down by gravity and once more acts conjointly with the weight .of the arm 17 to hold the valve piece tightly upon its seat.

. In the operationinvolving the movement of the parts 15 and 19, the fact that these parts haveop'positely directed spherical or rounded surfaces, they slide over each other with small resistance of a ball bearing having a'pproximatley only one point of contact between them. On account of the weighted part 19 having its fulcrum or point of support adjacent to the plane of its upper-surface, where it contacts with the rib 6, it is manifest that at all times, excepting when greatly inverted, this cup-shaped piece tends to act as a counterweight to push the valve piec'eyl5 back upon its seat, thereby materially assisting the weighted arm 17 in holding the valve piece "to its seat "except when the bottle is very largely inverted.

When the bottle is inverted, no liquid will run into the bottle by submerging it, as the air within cannot escape, and whenever the bottle is turned, approaching a horizontal or more vertical position, the valve piece is tight upon its seat and prevents the inflow of liquid as well as the outflow of air. In this manner, the bottle is practically non refillable. In this construction the center of gravity of the valve piece and its arm is so positioned that the valve piece will seat uponthe seat when the bottle is held horizontally and this action is assisted by the gravity action of the part 19, so that at all times when the air might escape from the bottle in an attempt to refill it, the valve piece will be forcibly held to its seat.

*We do not restrict ourselves to the particular manner in which the cap 2 is attached to the top of the bottle neck, as it is manifest that this may be accomplished in many ways. However, the cementing of it in position is inexpensive and satisfactory. It is also evident that while cork is most satisfactory for the annular valve seat 13, rubber or other construction having a slightly yielding surface may beemployed. Broadly considered, however, this annular seat may be of any suitable material, whether pliable or otherwise, as the pliability is simply a preferred construction since it adapts itself to a tight joint with the valve piece. While the remaining parts may be of metal, we do not restrict ourselves thereto as they might be made of porcelainfglass or any hard materials which would not be affected by the contents ofithe bottle. While we have our construction in the form which we prefer, wedo not limit ourselves to the minor details thereof, as these may be modi-' fied without departing from thespirit'of the invention. I 7

Having 'now'desc'ri-bed our invention, what weclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 7 In a ,ncin refillable bottle, the bottle neck, with a hollow cap {secured to the neck providing a chamber having an outlet at the top and the interior walls of the chamber ribbed, and an annular valve seat between the bottle neck'and the chamber of the cap, saidparts forming a circular fulcrum bearing for the valve piece between the ribs and the seat, incombi'na' tion with a valve :piece seating upon the valve seat 'and having a rounded or spherical upper surface and a thin circumferential edge -ad]acent to the seating surface and caused to rock within 'thechamber ofthe c'ap bysaide d'ge and the of gravity of the valve piece and its arm being slightly to the neck side of the plane of the seat when the bottle is in horizontal position and to the outlet side of the plane of the seat when the bottle is very slightly inverted beyond the horizontal position, and a relatively light Weight piece loosely arranged Within the chamber of the cap above the valve piece having relatively sharp circumferential edges in contact with and guided and restricted by the ribs so as to both slide and rock thereon and having its under surface rounded or spherical-shaped so as to provide a limited contact engagement with the rounded surface of the valve piece and assist the gravity action of the valve piece to quickly and positively seat upon its seat when the bottle is returned from pouring to horizontal position and in the pouring position to act as a support for 20 HARRY W. RIES. LANDY B. BROWVN. FREDK. C. YOCKEL.

Witnesses:

DOROTHY CHERTAK, E. W. SMITH.

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